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Family Arts Day 2021

10/6/2021

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​This year’s Family Arts Day is just around the corner! Join us at the Art Center on ​Sunday, October 10th from 11am – 4pm for an afternoon of arts, performance, food, and more! Here is a sneak peak of some of the highlights of this year’s event:
DANCE AND GROOVE WITH FRED THOMKE AND ROSEWOOD
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Fred Thomke is a solo vocalist/guitarist who also plays harmonica. Fred is based in Huntington Beach, California, and performs all over the southern California region.  His song list consists of a very eclectic mix of easy-listening, soft-rock, and country-folk songs, covering artists such as Jim Croce, John Denver, Jimmy Buffet, James Taylor, Johnny Cash...and that's just the artists whose names start with "J" -- he's got the rest of the alphabet covered, too!
Rosewood is one of the Art Center’s favorite local bands, playing timeless acoustic pop and the lighter side of rock. Their soaring four part harmonies bring the popular songs they cover come alive with energy- think Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young for a good comparison! Their play list includes pop, jazz, soft rock, and samba, just to name a few. You won’t be able to resist singing along to your favorite songs!
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WHEEL THROWING WITH ANNA CHOE & ALEXANDRO VERGARA

Get your hands muddy and learn to throw a ceramic pot on the wheel! Our skilled ceramic  instructors Anna Choe and Alexandro Vergara will lead you through the steps to center, pull, and shape a small clay vessel that you can take home to air dry.
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Anna Choe IG: @bitda_ceramics
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Alex Vergara IG: @av.ceramics

​PAPERMAKING WITH GLORIA FLICKINGER
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​Gloria Flickinger
is back with her beloved Papermaking project! Ever wonder how paper is made? Gloria will give you a hand with this fascinating process, and you will be able to press recycled paper pulp into a new colorful sheet with a myriad of artistic uses. Bet you won’t guess what her secret ingredient is! 
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INTRODUCING ONE OF OUR NEWEST INSTRUCTORS- ARTIST SARAH MCCOURT!
​We welcome artist Sarah McCourt to participate as one of our instructors for Family Arts Day! She will be facilitating a wonderful painting activity where participants will get to paint their own tote bags to take home. She will begin teaching painting classes with us in Spring of 2022, so stop by, say hello, and think about enrolling in her Spring courses!
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Sarah McCourt IG: @artist_sarah_mccourt

​SURF CITY ARTS FEST POP UP SHOP
​Pop in our Project Room to see over 130 artworks available for sale by 29 local artists! There are some unbelievable paintings, sculptures, stained glass works, mixed-media pieces, ceramics, and more. Our Pop Up shop is open for browsing and shopping until October 30th. To see a preview of all the works available, make sure to visit the page on our website:  https://www.huntingtonbeachartcenter.org/surf-city-arts-fest-pop-up-shop.html
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Some of the other events include weaving, mixed media art, paper mosaics, tissue paper art, leaf prints, a scavenger hunt for a chance to win an art prize, and more! Bring your family and friends and stop by this coming Sunday for a dose of inspiration, play, and creativity!
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“Scapes and Scope” in 3 Movements by curator jim ellsberry

9/22/2021

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This current exhibition "Scapes and Scope – Visions of Land, Sea, and Urban Space" brings together a variety of artworks depicting land, sea, and urban settings. You will experience over 115 paintings by moving in and out of three distinct, yet related, displays in the Art Center’s gallery. The exhibit begins – and welcomes the viewer - in the first room.
Room 1 – Traditional 
​Here you leave behind the loud and busy outside, and you are invited to simply relax and enjoy beautifully rendered representations of scenery around us. In this room, land and sea paintings are done in traditional, representational styles. But you will also see hints of impressionism and contemporary painting mixed in.
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“The Sea Cave and the Southern Shoreline” by Rick Humphrey, oil on canvas, 35 x 60 inches
A key painting here is by California artist Rick Humphrey. It depicts the southern side of the Palos Verdes Peninsula. The view is looking south from what is today the Terranea Resort, once the same location for Marineland of the Pacific. Rick has a strong attachment to this area and is an advocate for preserving its remaining open spaces.
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Room 2 – Contemporary 
​As you enter our second room, the paintings are not unfamiliar. Still representational, they bring much more of the “Urban” scape to our show. But viewers are also invited to imagine and “…see beyond the usual,” in the words of the great American painter Robert Henri. 
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​A prominent part of this room is a painting by California artist Mark Beck. It’s an example of how art can make a strikingly bold statement.  The painting is based ​on a landscape by the Hudson River School painter Asher Durand called “Kindred Spirits.”  It is about crises in America, from climate to ethnic and racial disparities. In my view, it also offers hope that comes out of continued and heightened awareness.
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Room 3 – Modern Expressive 
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“Western Sky” by Susan Stone, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches

​​When standing in the second room, you can look into Room 3 where you are presented with the painting on the left. This work is by another California artist, Susan Stone. Although it reminds me of work that came out of the New York School (abstract expressionism), it also presents an imaginary scape of – in Stone’s words – "unfettered sky, land, and water." You might even say it is a depiction of time - sunrise to sunset. It’s a painting that reminds us to be joyful and aware of color and the beauty around us.

​I hope this information will be helpful as you move throughout this exhibition we call “Scapes and Scope – Visions of Land, Sea, and Urban Space.” Most of all, I wish to thank the artists who have participated in the show. As well I wish to thank the outstanding staff of the Huntington Beach Art Center for all their hard work in helping make this happen.  
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​- Jim Ellsberry
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WATERCOLOR PAINTING WITH ARTIST COUNCIL MEMBER DON PIRCH

9/1/2021

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"Franciscan Prayer Garden" 2021

​Artist Council member Don Pirch is exhibiting in the upcoming Scapes and Scope Visions of the Land, Sea and Urban Space on view at the Huntington Beach Art Center September 18 - October 23. The artist shares some of his recent watercolors depicting Mission San Juan Capistrano in this intimate look at the artist's process and perspective. 

​The 2021 watercolor is a perspective view of the Franciscan Prayer Garden inside the mission. Don performed extensive research of the site, both online and in-person. Taking photos of the garden and sketching it by hand, the artist captures a sense of place in his rendering of the mission's building materials and foliage.
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"I like the crispness, color variety and relative values of all the objects, says Pirch.

"I e
xperimented with a variety of watercolor brush configurations, sizes, and brush shapes. All this to obtain the desired visual effect I need to emulate the observed site material conditions."
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"Return of the Swallows" 2019
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Architectural Detail. Masonry Arch. 2019

"This site is a gold mine for painting architectural features," according to Don.  Two of the artist's recent artworks were selected for display in the Scapes and Scope juried exhibition. Please visit the exhibition online or in our galleries located in downtown Huntington Beach.​
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